Gal. You see how easily she may be surprisd. [PROCULEIUSand two of the Guard ascend the monument by a ladder, and come behind CLEOPATRA.Some of the Guard unbar and open the gates, discovering the lower room of the monument.

Clo. Very many, men and women too. I heard of one of them no longer than yesterday; a very honest woman, but something given to lie, as a woman should not do but in the way of honesty, how she died of the biting of it, what pain she felt. Truly, she makes a very good report o the worm; but he that will believe all that they say shall never be saved by half that they do. But this is most fallible, the worms an odd worm.

Clo. You must not think I am so simple but I know the devil himself will not eat a woman; I know that a woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not. But, truly, these same whoreson devils do the gods great harm in their women, for in every ten that they make, the devils mar five.